Oliver Stone's Partying 'W' Trailer Debuts
By Bill W. Monday Jul 28, 2008 3:15pm
The trailer to Oliver Stone's upcoming film about President George W. Bush, draws on his "heavy partygoer" days.
CBS:
The movie appears to portray the young Mr. Bush as a beer-drinking, hard-partying screw up who looks chastened during a lecture from his father, George H.W. Bush.
"If I remember correctly, you didn't like the sporting goods job," the elder Bush says in the trailer. "Working in the investment firm wasn't for you either, or the oil rig job. You didn't exactly finish up with flying colors in the Air National Guard, junior."
Though Stone's depiction seems sure to draw some criticism, Bush has "openly admitted to past drinking problems" and to having done "things as a youth that he was not proud of." Despite a few appearances that could plausibly suggest otherwise, Bush has long claimed to have gone "cold turkey in July 1986" and not had a drink since.
Also, you may recall a couple of weeks back when two members of the cast of Stone's movie, including Josh Brolin, the actor playing "W," were arrested following a bar fight in Shreveport, Louisiana that apparently began after "a couple of good 'ol boys" taunted Brolin and co. with a "few profanity-laced barbs about Stone, his politics and the reported anti-Bush tone" of the film.
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What a waste. Bush just isn't that interesting. Besides, I would rather watch a SNL skit with Will Ferrel as W than a Oliver Stone hack job.
This trailer shows Americans what they have elected (or rather, the Supreme Court) to the highest office in the land! That's right, a know-it-all-nothing complete failure. God, what a unending nightmare, Future generations will think we were all insane! That's OUR legacy!
That song (A Wonderful World) was played as the opening song in my son's wedding reception 2 years ago. He died exactly one year later from wounds suffered in Iraq. That life was so long ago.
Bush is still drinking... his guards will tell you so, off the record.
His legacy is of a piece with other Bush Crime family members, and we really should make sure that future generations don't ever take anybody named "Bush" seriously again. Not one person in that family is worth the effort it takes to sneer at them... yet, we should be sneering and herding them back onto their preserves so the rest of us can get on with our lives.
Gayle, I feel for you.
Gayle @ 3:
:^(
Condolences....
I feel for you also, Gayle. Oue family lost our Matthew in Afghanistan last month.
Here's another movie featuring George Bush Jr. ~ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3179462717908405974
dejah @ 4:
Yes. The entire Bush family has a taint of evil in their blood. Someone should throw holy water at them just to see what happens.
Trawled Alien @ 1:
Agreed. I'm not really interested.
This movie is going to debut 8 years too late.
i can't imagine wanting to watch this movie. i have had enough of the real bush to refuse to sit through, and pay $9, to see a fictional bush.
this is like the 9/11 movies that came out a couple of years ago: too soon, too painful, too suspect
Bush pours himself a beer... ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKc6UMfZW6U
"How dare you libruls make a movie about a president during a time of war! Arrrrgggggggggghhh!!!"
~reich-wing talking point 476,114
But if you listen to the Righties, this is an outrage! How dare Oliver Stone do this when Bush is still in office! But to the enlightened, this is old news. I mean we all know Bush is an incompetent loser who was given anything he wanted and turned it to crap.
MCCAIN TELLS CNN HE SUPPORTS A TIMETABLE.
For a long time now, McCain has been arguing that a "timetable" would lead to "defeat" in Iraq and "a victory for Al Qaeda." Then on Friday, he told Wolf Blitzer that 16 months sounded like "a pretty good timetable," seemingly taking Obama's position on the subject. Then he told George Stephanopoulos that he never used the word "timetable," when in fact he had.
When he isn't arguing that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki doesn't know what he's talking about, McCain is trying to reframe the argument over withdrawal in Iraq by stating that Obama's timetable is somehow inflexible and not based on conditions in Iraq, and as far as CNN is concerned, it seems to be working.
So despite months of statements like "What happens is dictated by conditions on the ground and what the commanders say," McCain wants you to believe that his adoption of Obama's policy on Iraq is prudent because it takes into account "conditions on the ground," while Obama's doesn't. This is all the more ironic given the fact that McCain has spent the couple of weeks accusing Obama of taking positions on Iraq based on "political expediency". (What then, is McCain's sudden embrace of a policy he once described as "defeat"?) Of course, give the fact that nothing that comes out of McCain's mouth can be interpreted as official policy, it's not really clear where McCain stands.
What is clear is that despite depicting Obama as naive and irresponsible on foreign policy, he has now been forced by political and empirical realities to adopt Obama's positions, at least nominally, on the two most pressing foreign policy issues of the day. That's not "good fortune," that's a matter of superior judgment. McCain shouldn't be allowed to avoid these facts by dishonestly reframing the debate.
--A. Serwer
"That song (A Wonderful World) was played as the opening song in my son’s wedding reception 2 years ago. He died exactly one year later from wounds suffered in Iraq. That life was so long ago."
I am so sorry.
George Bush caught off gaurd. ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLmKzXCveiI&NR=1
I gotta admit, the "Who do you think you are? A Kennedy?!?" line cracked me up.
Gayle, I'm so sorry for your loss. My deepest sympathies condolences.
Sorry off topic, but Robert Novak has apparently been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
According to one of the doctors, it's something they check for when people who have been in an accident report that they weren't aware they hit something.
I can't stand the guy, but it appears that he may not have been lying about not knowing he hit the guy. And I wouldn't wish a brain tumor on my worst enemy . . .
who in the fuck wants to see a movie about george bush?
this may be a good idea 20 years from now but i think it's safe to say the majority of people simply don't want to see or hear this fucking idiot any longer.
My condolences also to Gloria #7.
Where is Bush anyway? I barely see him anymore, the last time I saw him was when that little girl cried and ran away from the baseball game. Are the Repugs keeping him under wraps before the election? Is he going to the convention? Stevens decided not to go.
Agreed... we should be focusing on the future, and trying to get out of this mess. All we have now is hope (link to ebooks version).
My condolences to Gloria and Gayle.
I can not possibly know how you feel, but please know that my heart goes out to you both.
Widespread @ 21:
Luckily he doesn't have to fight and risk his life in Iraq like the men and women he helped send there. Luckily he has access to the best medical care in the world. Convenient as well that he can afford a lawyer to prevent him from spending any time in jail or from even being prosecuted for this hit and run. I wouldn't feel too bad for him. But hopefully he fully recovers.
Hey, I'm all for freedom of expression, but the timing of this movie is rather suspect. Just imagine the outrage if a Clinton biopic had been released in October 2000.
I've been talking up Obama around some of my more conservative friends and so far the "McCain equals Bush" talking point isn't gaining any traction with those on the fence.
P.D. @ 24:
I bet he's holed up in some little hidey-hole in the WH, raiding the liquor cabinet, and gettin plum snockered.
I cannot imagine who would be able to stomach watching 2 hours of W's life, regardless of how he is portayed. However, it is hilarious that this movie was actually made. W is such a butt of his own joke of a life.
Even if W is not drinking, he is still a dry drunk with all of those issues. Quitting cold turkey and not dealing with the issues that made you a drunk/addict in the first place is not recovery. Apparently, this is when he first became the "decider" and "stayed the course"?
This movie should premiere on election day. That would be poetic.
Gayle @ 3:
Gayle, I'm so sorry to hear about your son. My heart goes out to you, your family, and your son's wife. It's too sad... this whole senseless occupation. You're correct that that life was so long ago. May you keep on keeping on...
Gloria, you have so much courage to be here after such a recent loss. I am so very sorry. As I parent, I cannot even imagine the depth of your grief.
Didn't boosh not mean "cold turkey" but really Wild Turkey?
I love Oliver Stone, but I can't watch a two-hour movie about Shithead.
Now, a two-hour episode of "That's My Bush!" I'd watch.
peaceful easy feeling @ 28:
Maybe in your neck o' the woods it don't...but down here it seems to doin ok...the only ones who aren't swayed, are the ones who wouldn't vote for a black man if it would save their lives.
Rusty Shackleford @ 34:
"I'm gonna punch you in the face, then the stomach, then the face again!"
Ah...I miss that show.
Gale and Gloria,
I hope that just because we all complain about the "war on terror" that you do not think we are in anyway disrespectful of your sons and daughters. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I have the utmost respect for those that are called upon to defend us and do so without question. I think daily about the many thousands of spouses, parents, siblings, children and other relatives of those that have sacrificed their lives for us, the pain they must feel. If they can sleep, they will wake up every day and almost smile and then remember, "Oh yeah, theres that". I cannot fully understand your grief. I do have a brother that returned from Viet Nam a far different person than the one that went over. There were other friends that did not return. I think of them. I am close to "my bro" and a number of other "bros" I have met through him. They need daily emotional support and attachments. Thank you again for raising the son or daughter that you did.
So what did carry W from party boy to the presidency?
A. The religious awakening experienced with Rev. Graham combined with a native intelligence and determination to work his way to the top; or
B. Raw, naked power.
1 Trawled Alien Says: What a waste. Bush just isn’t that interesting. Besides, I would rather watch a SNL skit with Will Ferrel as W than a Oliver Stone hack job.
I wouldn't wish a Will Ferrell skit on the most hardened Gitmo prisoner.
And a Tina Fay one will end with you on the dock at the Hague.
gloria @ 7:
Gloria, my condolences to you and your family, and to your son, Matthew's, extended family and friends. You're in my thoughts and my heart.
Oliver Stone's best work ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3pkp-zQPqs
This movie might have the effect of watering down the real horror of the Bush clan. W is a sociopath with millions of lives on his hands. The entire Bush clan is criminally complicit going back several generations.
Who's this movie for exactly?
Those who worship boosh will think it blasphemy
And those who hate boosh won't waste eight dollars to see a movie about him.
I don't like horror movies.
I won't go see this.
I want to see the film where a noose is placed around his neck and the floor falls out from under his feet.
More than a little late don't you think?
Bill W. dropping innuendos about Bush falling off the wagon. Kinda loving that.
Also, liberals need to beat the crap out of rednecks in barroom fights more often. It's called spreading freedom.
The right wing needs to think very carefully about the "How DARE they make a movie about a sitting president" bit... lest someone bring up 9/11 - TIME OF CRISIS, which plays like a straight up black comedy if you watch it now.
ysbaddaden @ 43:
It may not find much success at the domestic box office for the reasons you describe, but it will almost surely be a hit, especially in dvd sales, worldwide. There is definitely an audience for this movie outside the US.
41 Orangutan. Says: Oliver Stone’s best work ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3pkp-zQPqs
Funny, I thought this was his best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1XmZ9_ckdw
Orangutan. @ 13:
Hey wait a minute... didn't he say he'd quit cold turkey?! Liar!!! and Crook!!!!!
Perfect theme music...The Idiot Son of An A**hole
Looking forward to the beastiality scenes.
Jeon Ji-Yung @ 47:
I plead the 5th. :^P
Gayle@3 and Gloria@7
I am so sorry for your losses and I wish your families well. Out of respect to you ladies, I will refrain from saying what I wish for our soulless President.
right on! @ 50:
Well, to be fair, they did claim it was a non-alcoholic beer....
http://gawker.com/news/pretty-dry/george-w-bush-actually-isnt-drinking-a...
So that must the case. Right? Even if that's true, having had the misfortune of living within one degree of separation to several alcoholics in the course of my life, it's been my experience that no recovering alcoholic would ever really think it was ok to consume those things. They still contain alcohol, just less so.
This will open at number 15 the first week and drop off the next. No one wants to see this.
If Bush has gone cold turkey, why was there a rumor floating about 2 weeks ago that Pickles has moved out of the WH, is suing for divorce and asking for 20 million, on grounds of abusiveness, alcoholism and infidelity (suppossedly Bush has Condolezza Rice as his concubine)? I googled "Bush" and "divorce" at the time and got numerous hits. numerous
Gayle and Gloria, condolences for your losses.
Chuck U @ 56:
Can you hook me up with some Lotto numbers?
peaceful easy feeling @28:
I believe Primary Colors was released in 1998.
I'd rather Stone(d) make an anti-McCain movie.
"Gayle and Gloria, condolences for your losses."
I am so sorry for your loss. May all of us 1 day be forgiven for our empathy or apathy during the last 8 years.
The more time the media spends attacking this movie, the less time they spend attacking Obama.
Honestly, this just looks plain terrible.
Another good piece of work by Oliver Stone ~ Jim Garrison`s (Kevin Costner) final speech
peaceful easy feeling @ 28:
I would not waste my time, stupid can't be cured... and if after 8 years of this anyone is still "on the fence" they are either stupid or fucked up.
I have no use for W but to be the subject for yet another tedious, presumably historically challenged biopic by Oliver Stone is a fate I wouldn't wish on anyone.
Although to be fair one of the funniest lines ever delivered in a film (Kyle MacLachlan playing Ray Manzarek of the Doors tells Val Kilmer (Jim Morrison) on a lovely S. Cal beach near sunset, 'we're makin' the myths man..'
Of course it wasn't intended to be funny.
Such is Oliver Stone's gift.
I'm sorry, but this looks like a pretty good movie. I'm going to check it out just to get another perspective of this guy. The problem with Bush is that we're only given bits and pieces of him by different people at different times and the overall package is just full of shit. But it looks like this movie will take a no holds barred look at him and that honesty will be refreshing. He's done what he's done. The most we can do is find out why to prevent it from happening again (even though it will because this is a nation of suckers.)
Won't watching this movie be rather like preaching to the choir?
BillO the Clown was bashing the movie last night. He seemed to think it not appropriate that it was even being made, given that W is still alive.....and somehow it is not such a good thing because of how Laura and the two daughters might feel.
The Clown didn't say anything about how the wives and daughters (and sons) of those who died in Iraq and Afghanistan feel.
My condolences also to Gloria and Gayle.
peaceful easy feeling Says: Hey, I’m all for freedom of expression, but the timing of this movie is rather suspect. Just imagine the outrage if a Clinton biopic had been released in October 2000.
I’ve been talking up Obama around some of my more conservative friends and so far the “McCain equals Bush” talking point isn’t gaining any traction with those on the fence.
You are confusing "not gaining any traction" with the look of people hearing an uncomfortable truth. But thank you for your concern. Bush = McBush
"Also, you may recall a couple of weeks back when two members of the cast of Stone’s movie, including Josh Brolin, the actor playing “W,” were arrested following a bar fight in Shreveport, Louisiana that apparently began after “a couple of good ‘ol boys” taunted Brolin and co. with a “few profanity-laced barbs about Stone, his politics and the reported anti-Bush tone” of the film."
What did they expect? They're drinking is some ya-hoo bar in Shreveport, Louisiana. I mean talking about walking into the belly of the beast. Anyway, I hope Brolin kicked some Bush-Cheney lovin ass!
Paul @ 57:
Eeeeeewwwww it's all so repulsive when you think about it. How could anyone share a bed with that loser fucktard Bu$h?!
Hahahahahahahahaha! Hahahahahaha! What a punk bitch! Hahahahahahaha!
All the criminals are there. W, THE president! Hahahahahaha!
Who is the audience for this flick? Conservatives won't go because they'll fear a smear job. Liberals won't go, because they're smart enough not to invest $10 a ticket and 2 hours in a movie about some spoiled, arrogant, dumb shit chimpanzee.
I have less than zero interest in this "entertainment."
Mister Anderson @ 68:
How many different views do you need of a shallow, one-dimensional shithead? I mean, c'mon, Chimpy ain't that deep. Chimpy is a spoiled, ignorant, cocky asshole who was lucky enough to be born into a wealthy, connected family that could pick him up and brush him off every time he fucked up.
There, I just saved you the price of a movie ticket.
Numinous @ 9:
I think the worst Bush is without a doubt,Babs, because of being a rotten mother she obviously has NEVER bothered to tell her idiot son, right from wrong!
I am sooooo sorry for your loss Gayle. You have my deepest sympathy.
Tyler Durden @ 66:
Very poor analogy. Not hiding anything at all. I'm questioning Stone's timing, but making it quite clear that censorship is not the answer here.
Yours is the kind of arrogance which only works against getting Obama elected.
Jesus saved George W. Bush
so the world got him.
Thanks, Jesus!
What about the heavy drug use?
The Truth Hurts @ 76:
I don't like Bush and think if he's not the worst ever, then he's at least in the top two. He's not the only person in America to come from wealth and privilege. But he's the only one to reach the White House and stay there for all of his faults and failures. But the Left always attacks him for being stupid, but the Left has never successfully stopped him ONCE in his entire eight years in office. The guy beat himself. The Democrats, whether the politicians of the people, didn't come close to touching him once for all that he did. So he may be a horrible President, but he's been brilliant in how he's been able to get elected twice and not come close to being held accountable for his actions.
And I'd like to know what is it about this guy that makes him brilliantly stupid. So thanks but no thanks. I think I'll check out the movie and factor it with all of the other books that have and will come out about this guy.
Bush is probably drinking his life away. It seems to me that when he DOES appear in public that he slurs his words. The whole world must think we are idiots for putting up with THAT idiot. GEESH! We're at war and the president has NO press conferences and he has all but disappeared. Where's the stepford wife?
George W Bush is the ONLY president in the history of the USA to have an ARREST RECORD. His daddy funded his companies, and he bankrupted them. Daddy got him into the National Guard in 2 days when there was a six-month waiting list, so he wouldn't have to go to Nam, and he was trained on a plane that was obsolete and would never see service...notwithstanding the fact that he hardly ever even showed up. Now he and his cronies are responsible for tyhe deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. They belong in prison, NOT in our government.
Mister Anderson @ 82:
That's an excellent point. Chimpy's charm completely escapes me, but I guess enough people are buying what he's selling.
It amazes me when I hear that Chimpy would be great to have a beer with. And discuss what??? What the fuck could he talk about? How to get into Yale with shitty grades? How to stay at Yale with shitty grades? How to avoid combat duty in Vietnam? How to run not one, but two, oil companies into the ground?
Gee, I guess we could talk about baseball, the "Internets" or all those "Shakesphere's" that he's read.
okay. I know the casting staff has a difficult jobs and Hollywood isn't exactly overflowing with ugly people but the woman playing W's mama is fairly attractive.
Couldn't they have thrown a wig and some pearls on Ed Asner?
for authenticity's sake?
This is too soon. It's like a 9/11 movie 2 months after 9/11.
Too bad Stone didn't take Dr. Frank's book( Bush on the Couch) on Bush and made a movie of the entire Bush clan and it's mentally disturbed ways. He could open with Bush 41 and barbara playing golf the day after their young daughter dies not saying a word or maybe thr scene where W laughs about a female inmate on death row begging for her life. W is just part of a much larger sick family.
I don't mind Stone making yet another movie about a confused, angsty screw up of a kid, living in his father's shadow. I'm just sorry that the whole damned world ended up being cast as badly paid extras with no lines.
If Bush's term in office was an episode of Star Trek, we'd all be a bunch of RED SHIRTS in the landing party who get consumed by some giant slime monster in the first five minutes. This is going to be too painful to watch.
were arrested following a bar fight in Shreveport, Louisiana that apparently began after “a couple of good ‘ol boys” taunted Brolin and co. with a “few profanity-laced barbs about Stone, his politics and the reported anti-Bush tone” of the film.
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People getting into a fight in the south because someone didn't like their pal Bush. How am I completely not surprised?
will there be a scene where bush waves an imaginary wand around and says "drop price"?
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of doing an autopsy on the Bush Jr. administration corpse until it's at least stopped breathing. Some of the commenters have a point. With only a 25% approval rating, nobody's going to go see the movie UNLESS it has a negative spin. (Or at least nobody but those Budwiser-headed 'good 'ol boys' that beat on Brolin.)
There are always complications with making a movie like this too soon. For example, does anybody remember THIS P.O.S. movie of the week about Oliver North?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097469/
'Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North.'
Hahaha! I laughed, but I also puked a little. Not a lot, just a little. The movie is complete with David Keith as Oliver North coming in to 'KICK ASS' with those wishy-washy State Department geeks at the NSA.
Looks like a farce on the level of Fahrenheit 9/11, not surprisingly.
I can't claim to be much of an Oliver Stone fan although Natural Born Killers was an interesting experiment.
At last, a subject worthy of Oliver Stone :)
But, here's the thing. Consider:
Bush hasn't copped to all the stuff Stone will show. He's been vague about having problems when he was young.
If Stone throws in the whole magilla...dodging service, doing coke, multiple DUIs, etc, then Bush will have two choices: either he can let that depiction sit or he can sue for libel.
Ah, but here's the rub...if he sues for libel, then he has to make his case and to do that he has to subject himself to discovery.
Sometimes it takes a coked up delusional maniac with a twisted sense of history to beat a coked up delusional maniac with a twisted sense of history.
The Barbara in the movie was not fat, ugly or nasty enough. This would have been a better portrayal http://www.maniacworld.com/star_wars_jokes/Jabba_the_Hut.jpg The only thing it needs is a strand of pearls.
I grew up in Shreveport and can attest to the high number of good ol boys. I have since moved to Cleveland. While I do miss Louisiana at times, I do not miss Shreveport in particular. Recalling how impassioned the locals were for David Duke while I was in high school is reason enough.
I love Stone and this looks like a return to form after a half decade of wandering in the wilderness.
peaceful easy feeling @ 79:
"Questioning Stone's timing"? News flash, Sweet Pea: Bush isn't running for president this year. If Stone released this movie in 2000 or 2004 you'd be much closer to having a point.
More "character politics/entertainment" for an electorate who have only a vague idea of what constitutes a democracy.
The "Babs" Bush is too slim! And the Rove actor seems not porcine enough, nor does the baldness of his dome look as real or denuded as KKKarl's. The voice of "Poppy" Bush was too masculine as well-- the real one has that adenoidal whine that's so painful (but at least not mush-mouthed as well, like Jr.)
"What a wonderful world" of shit the Bush Dynasty has sunk this country in, after all.
The Rove actor is not porcine enough? Maybe they should have hired this guy.
http://www.sdcpa.org/associations/1535/files/bankessmall.jpg
peaceful easy feeling @ 79:
Oh, the analogy was spot on. Sorry is showed your intellectual dishonesty.
dejah @ 4:
Bush is still drinking… his guards will tell you so, off the record.
His legacy is of a piece with other Bush Crime family members, and we really should make sure that future generations don’t ever take anybody named “Bush” seriously again. Not one person in that family is worth the effort it takes to sneer at them… yet, we should be sneering and herding them back onto their preserves so the rest of us can get on with our lives.
Yes. The entire Bush family has a taint of evil in their blood. Someone should throw holy water at them just to see what happens.
the water will evaporate, it's holy(full of holes.)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1175491/ (this is the link to the cast)
Former Daily Show correspondent, Rob Corddry as Ari Fleisher, that is too funny.
Richard Dreyfuss as Dick Cheney, OMG (Great villan role, BTW).
I. Can't. Wait.
P.D. @ 2:
i was thirteen when he was elected. i already think of it as your generations legacy!
now it's MY turn to vote, Obama 08
Ruthless People @ 96:
Agreed. Damn, every time I hear her say that 'beautiful mind' line, I want to drop her in Baghdad & let her find her own way home.
And W is far too handsome in this movie. They could've at least given him some ear prosthetics.
Man, that trailer sucks shit. And what about the bullshit that "it's a biography about a George W. Bush, it's not political at all." Really? A movie about a political figure and there is no politics. Oh, boy, I really want to see a movie about some well connected, shallow, failing businessman that always gets bailed out by his Poppy or by his connections.
This movie looks like it's gonna shed no light and suck shit. This is going to be some melodramatic emotionally manipulative drivel. Fuck this shit. Who wants to see a biography about Bush's Whole life? This movie's one redeeming feature could be that we see a young George Bush snort a whole lotta cocaine. Yeah!
I'm a fan of many of Stone's movies but I'll definitely be taking a pass on this one!
I hope this gets a 2009 release - for 2 reasons;-
1. there are enough morons out there who will vote for McCain to spite Stone and the loony lefties who support Obama and the Democrats.
This may severely jeopardise America's chances to redeem itself in the world (C'mon - George W is the WORST President in US History - worse then Nixon!)
Which brings me to point no. 2;-
If W gets released this year - it may hurt Frank Langella's chances to score an oscar for his portrayal of Nixon in "Frost/Nixon".
Can you just see the nominees for Best Actor in 2008???
Langella as Nixon, Brolin as Bush, Del Toro as Che Guevara, Penn as Harvey Milk? All excellent actors portraying both good and bad real people! Be hard to choose hey???
Ya know, having looked at the trailer I think my words weren't harsh enough.
F*%K THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!
Bush doesn't deserve a movie!
He deserves only to be erased from history!
Stone, WTF were you thinking!!!
Thandie Newton as Condoleeza Rice? She is way too beautiful for that. In fact, even the guy playing Rove is good-looking! This film is going to inflate their already overblown egos!
Even though I couldn't get the youtube video to play, I planned to pop in here and take a stab comedy, as I usually do and which probably only amuses me.
Nonetheless, I have nothing after reading the posts from Gayle and Gloria.
Their posts are a sobering reminder of the reality of our President's actions, those of his supporters and their seemingly selfish and reckless agendas.
As a parent, I offer you my heartfelt condolences and to your sons my grief and respect.
peace
Orangutan. @ 8:
I just watched the entire film about the assassination of JFK, Jr., his wife and her sister and I had a fantastic thought!
Since Carolyn Kennedy is leading the search for a Vice Presidential candidate for Obama she should just pull a Cheney and decide that SHE is the best candidate for the job!!
Ta-da!!!
She just won't be able to fly again, will have to live in a bubble and have reliable tasters for all her meals until she's completed her 8 years as POTUS (that's after 8 years of Obama).
Thoughts?
fiver @ 38:
A. Actually, it was the desire to avenge his father, after he was kicked out after one term. Revenge is a particularly potent force, especially when the whole Republican party was out to get some, too. Anger and the desire for revenge have put more shitheads into public office than idealism, no doubt about it.
B. I don't think he's been naked and raw since the initiation ceremony for the Skull and Bones society.
Lest anyone forget that they voted for a drunk and a drug addict.
I wouldn't date a dry drunk or a used to be drug addict, let alone vote for one.
Sound like the music is going to be great in the film.
Somehow I find it impossible to associate Bush with
good music....
Wouldn't it be better to remember and learn from... oh, never mind.
That was amusingly quick. Does anyone care to recall if he thought it was too soon for either of the other two fictionalized accounts of the Bush adminstration - the now-comical 9/11 - TIME OF CRISIS and whatever the hell that piece of crap ABC ran was called?
Mike V. @ 117:
Not even if he dangles $1000 of your own money in front of your nose? That's basically what happened in 2000. It was a choice between a talented geek who was promising to put your $1000 in a 'lock box' for your retirement, and a psychotic dry drunk who offered to give it back to you right now, to spend on booze, porn, and potato chips. It's scary to think that almost half the voters preferred the second option. 'Fuck fixing social security, gimme the cash!' Boy are we ever a bunch of selfish, short sighted losers. No wonder the world hates us so much.
Bill W. @ 11:
Unlike Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 (which was very timely and brave), yet barely made a dent in Bush's Black House.
My thought is that this movie will probably both trivialize and glorify the worst president in American history.
Not to mention -- Bush doesn't need any more exposure. He needs to be shut away forever for the rest of his evil life.
One more thing--
If Oliver Stone ever had any integrity as a director of fiilms (which has always been doubtful, imo) then he would shut this turkey down right here and now, pay the cast and technicians their money and start working on an Obama or a McCain movie.
Oliver Stone is directing the movie? Seems to me that Wes Craven or John Waters would be more fitting.
.....Or George Romero.
Left&Left @ 125:
Now Romero would make an AWESOME Bush film!!!
With Tom Savini on makeup effects....Sweeeeet!
Sorry, no way in hell I will ever watch this movie. The sight and sound of that baffoon sickens me.
It's ironic that everyone is offering Gayle condolences here, over the loss of her son in Iraq. Conveniently overlooked is that he volunteered to die by joining the military. Don't want to die in war? Then don't join the military! Don't want people to die? Then don't support war! A close friend of mine is currently in Iraq, deep in the trouble. He chose it. For the money, for the retirement benefits, for the medical benefits for his family. He is supporting war by being a part of it. And he is quick to summarize that the people over there are not really mature enough to understand anything other than war. Does anyone really believe that bringing them more war is helping them out? Their main duty these days is making the local police and authorities look good while the military takes no credit.
Meanwhile, all the audience (you!) want is gasoline lower than $1.00 a gallon, complaining all about Bush on the way to the gas station in your SUV.
Richard @ 128:
Her son may have chosen it but she didn't. Dick.
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